Originally Posted by noahath

I have a question, based on one of the rationales being used to try Saddam (ie he signed the death warrants of 148 of his citizens), would that then mean that every Governor of each US state that enforces the death penalty would be liable for each person who they either signed a death warrant for, or refused to quash the death penalty for? Eg, the USA performed 60 executions in 2005 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution). Why do we as western citizens have the "right" to say that we have the right to kill people, but others don't? Flawed logic in my book, and certainly makes for some interesting thoughts...